Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. EDNISDAY. December 30. 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . The Evening Star New -y Vs O i Pamive 1an “ompany Snsland nine & ONits may Main 50000 ¢ ®eni of o et ¥ Rate by Mail—Vayable in \dvance. ‘and and Virginia iS00 7 1 Ve =R T man 30 1 S5on - AL Other States and Canada. nd Sund. = Member of the Associated Pr Reram AN of <prcial dispatehies herein A Fire Lesson. fortune Washin 1t eontlaBiion Alon red afternoon s us fre a4 in business initial prompt the however, district v to pr sp effective wort Conditions w Fire Departie marzin was slend e ctive fire wer vith intense cold A alone saved the of maznitude This fortunat tively o ris) is and sharp wind vailing. margin of fav ety from lisaster tire Iy kept to com iy s that <1 on the fAltered nited run Keepinz the ¢ api basis zhting from <pre th vith li hevond water Had immediate Depurtment the ter would have been exhausted in unle 1l de in supply the Dlaze d the control of e w short time s ntinl use of der were cut oif centrate the supply ing th of the A ure in the to con mains scene conflugration. high-pres Water service for fighting in the busine « obviously ied n the ¢ “tallation cannot be ure istent. The fact that the Deen spared a sweeping fire the to s district that for its in ne in this city epetition of mand too woor in city for many that dis €ars does not it will continue ster. Any such a cur, findinz the Firve the i warrant thus e 1 day Dluge Department that ieyond control through luck of wate 1115 only by keeping the fir iirst location throuzh nd effective that ined city help. Iess before mes wve got s down to SWIFU respy frst safety i nse wetion the the in ten minutes o Thi wtrous confla margin of m dis wtion throy < proper water supply for hre fizht is recognized by the insurance companies, which insist upon i hi rate premium thun The fact that Hot its in ing ey i Government duves »uld that of should prev e insure e weight in the stallation high-pr vould eifect a reduction or Haps prevent an incre The United st mous value erty have ro arsument it ure service wouid per in premiums. Dosse an enor their hould e tion their in structures and in contents &t the Capital. and deeply concerned in the i of every possible 1 A hizh-pressure the must end \eans for Pres ervation system e ot th that detinite of me: . The liens, cold-wiy it the prophet re udinz have in the actual fucts Even hey were nem frem country no difference would made Staedle B; his mind Gen butler destroyed his L speaking v t hope of u lov ng cnp oand woset o sraved ions from official Philadelphis - resolu Italy keeps Mussolini entirely too | busy to permit any idea of his H tour zoing on as o business doctor for nit tions in general A Nationa Definite 1 Meeting Place. Maj. as successor to Licut public | tmnounced to- | | i | appointinent = sherrill as director of and parks is nfirminz the luilding: day as e motlicial selec reporied. On the office Maj. Grant, who l\.l.‘; time served as Col. Sherrill's | declared his intention to pursue | tion previously ing me policy as his of the of the favors with for athletic public predecessor development Capital. i he features seneral h he especial em- | s is o stadium m ctitions and great i outdoor as- | | i The Lshinzt proposal for dium (e n has often been advanced, | i 1 w but with no definite prozress it. Tt was broached some ye when the first of the Olympic held abroad, and : vecur | of that great event the thought | lias been expressed in many quarte that Washington should be equipped | with facilities for holding the interna al meet here. Should the Olympie 4ines ever come to the United States unless a great stadium ere erected here, of necessity have o be stazed in some other city. The pital not effectively bid for honor of entertaining the athletes 4. althouzh in all cases the meets have been Leld the cities have been cenc of the contests | An ideal location for a sta- | dium is afforded by Potomac Park. | casy of access, ample of dimensiens | nd in all respects suitable. In the | plans for the development of Potomac | vk such a stadium has been a feu- wre for a long time. It has been | tely proposed that the plan for twosevelt Memorial, which contem- | plates a double colonnade and foun tain near the Washington Monument, should be changed to the “form af a reat stadium named in honor of the President who distinetly a lover of the outdoor lite and whose ex mple set @ wholesome standard of living for the youth of America. Washington should have a complete canipment for all forms of natlonal A etadium would repr toware o sames vere each rence they would, could vhen rope capital he sreat in a was has | | when plan I | Year day. fdollars would be enough for him.” and jadmonished them to “watch his smoke " [ment. but despite these handicaps he |furged always steadily forward. Thus | vation in- France for the present at 1 ) = STAR | sent @ phase of American life that is | universal. It would make possible jarent wsemblages f the country. It would make feasible the holding of larze meetinzs for oth nathletic purposes ants, inspiving ceremonies weuld be a natienal parade zround vell o 1t would in its pr tical umply repay for tandinz It L stage utility forever the < dividen: its cost as a monum. Amer s s in better eit ———— Geod Folice Work. remarkable of police work was furnished yester- Frank Allizood in Childs’ restaw nt the criminal at a an \ example heads A tay Detective P his capture the [ hamdi Spottin, Seventh and 15 st committed an overt act, the detective. ctinz hunch.” followed in his until he entered the restaurant. befor wake Taking up o position just outside, Alli wod waited developments. They were not delaved. Suddenly the spun wildly and dushed out. closely pursued by intrepid waitre The detective juined the chase and cornered his man in the busement of the Willard Hotel Allizood. ene of the smallest men on fore and the the department in auto work rapidly Washington's best When Andrew of it lons re volving dours the windit in letective one of vs of nobile be cominz nd recovery is Enown tinest handit capturer men attempted to rob the faithiul fFrank R Jellen few d Allizood and another provided the finishing touches to sensational affair b Lieckett messenger detactive Fawhe | capturing e | Volice hizhwaymen. work of the Xind Allizood cannot {mended too hizhly. He b !strated that he ever-watchiul rdizn of the interests of the com nity. and that he possesses <h degree that intuition which en alles men to reach the peak in their shown by he com demon Detective is an U o chosen endeay With (= Alligood on the foree of all descriptions would do well to give Washington the | Citizens of the District hope | that word will g0 out through the un Gerworkd that the National Cupital is the one place where criminuls are otted before they do more than step offt the train, and that this is an un {healthy town in which to ope e Chicago's New Year Eve. Ununsual preparations are being made in Chicago to celebrate the com ling 1o a dis teh from the Windy City, all ire being thoroughly renovated, judges | will hold nizht court, justices are ready 1o sisn bonds at all hours prohibition dusting their visit at vario such men criminals “Lo-by. ing of the new vear. Acc and | off | | the | | ents are evening clothes to < clubs and hotels €. Yellowley. prohibition #d-! ministrator. has announced that both | men and women tipplers will feel the | the law and that those | on the | heavy har ve ones who car fHasks hin would Letter fold thousund-doHar bills neatly into the other pockets if | they wish to spend the next day in the pursuit of life, liberty and happi yoss (ree from supervision. On the other side of the picture is the wnnouncement of the hotels and that 16,000 reserva New Yeur | revelers } the im ; clubs in Chicazo /tions have been made for eve svidently have not been frightened 1 concentration of law prospective posing entoecs encies spite of all this of prohibited the deplorable wholesale A n drinking citivs of there will be liquors in «ll country tomorrow night 1 that there s} such violation of the cizhteenth amendment, and that such expensive machinery into play to effect even w small check of those who de liberately scorn the law. Probably the and definite end will appear buotleg poisonous liquor be con Lud that its imbibers <hun it as they would the plague. r————— It is reassuring to read that Gen. <hins's health is good, barring the ind tear natural to an old finding himself in a situa- A1 arzument and no fisht and brousht extensive must be only re: _— will is ne <oldie tion that is rve wear ing N . I'roof of the incrgasing prosperity of the country may be found in the cover charge for @ New Year eve dinner. e A Rigid Determination. Promising himself since he was fourteen vears old U when he made a million he would quit work, Joseph president of motor car company of Boston. has an unced that he will retire New \ Donovan, a on Thirty-one veurs ago. while workinz an apprentice mechanic in the hops of the New York Central Rail at ten an honr. voung »onovan told sroup of grease smearcd companions that “a million | road cents al when he went after it. Today at the age of forty-five Mr. Donovan has announced that his goal 1as been reached, and that he intends | devote the playtime of his life to solfing and traveling. | There is nothing particularly re- markable in this story except the rigid Getermination which has held Mr. | n to his appointed task. He| probably had many discouraging mo- ments, moments when his dream of 2 million seemed impossible of fulfill- to Donov. hard work and conscientious endeavor triumph again. and Mr. Donovan ean njoy to its fullest, free from worries, | the life span that is left to him. | Briand Quells Revolt. Briand has saved the sit- i | i Premier least stroke of strategy which has quelled opposition to the mini: tr; finance plan in the radical-social- ist ranks. Four of the members of the cabinet were blocking ministerial | sanction of the Doumer measures. The premier definitely informed them that they could accept the finance pro- posals or resign. in which case he would fill their places from the right wing. This meant that he was ready to ignore the left and to fight out his by a m all parts of spectacies, | e had | | par Lton's, | fifteen heat prostrations |cout | ing: Lof their art or because of their m: ther THE KVENING financiel reform with the support of the cabinet and the right of the Cham- | Upon the meeting of | ber of Deputies. he cabinet 10 vote program and the upon the fnance there were no resiznations Doumer proposals were ap proved. Thus with a unanimons min istry Briand zoes to the chamber for sostaining vote, which in the circum Stances is now expected. This adjnstment at Peris is hearten inz 1o the friends of France who have for some time feared that the spirit of | vadicalism as manifested in the pres vepresentative body would bring zovernment 1o the point of Lupse. A general election would. it is hoped, yield conservatiy mbes, one disposed o proceed with 1 rebabilitation along con- structive lines. Dissolution of ment and a call for an election ent a more cha tinan would, however, move, itself critical. The problem of the premier is to work out a financial m without precipitating if possible. Briand ap s ut Jeast throuzh reform pros such a cris| ave d the staze of cabinet unity. In his unifying move Premier Briand was more than dictatorial. He mani fested a spirit of compromise, placat ing the radicals of the cabinet with promise 1o incorporate in future meas ures certain features which the radi cal party has favored. The prime pur- pose is 1o zet cabinel und chamber ap pears to ne budzet-halancing meas Finance Minister Doumer thut the course is comparative although rocks lie ———— Washington Weather Members of Congress who have i proval of the ure After ensy N ihead. [cently been complaining of Wi “terrible climate™ and suggestions for the of Capital are vequested to note that re ports from Arzentina give the perature of that South American republic as over 100 dezrees Buenos Aires sweltered at 101 Rosario, sccond largest city. likev had dez while in the northern p ince, Santiago Del Extero, the temjgra ture than n the shade. “Ah" shouts is Summer in South may as well say that Washington has u better temperature than the Mohave Desert. Better more convineing.” “Al right,” the Washing tonian, “If you want something really look last Summer’s record for Washinzt n that the verage 0 degrees.” ng removal the rem fair with the 101 e in was more 110 degrees *This America and vou the opposition zive us answers convincing over temperature n I was slightly over that, all in all are many we places in the than the National Capital and few et ter. Washington seldom reaches the 100-degree mark and is never unliv able, and it bucks up official records. r——— Coul operators and miners have con sented onfer It that any remarks will be offered which not have been made while the was warm and the surround and It will be se there world So taking it s claims by 0 not expected is weith: cheerful. — e It would perhaps only aggravate the sitiwation if the opponents skirts and cigarettes were to write a playv about them and employ the ubjurgations which only the New York theater permits. JEST doubt because i A few artists whether they leave it in are interesting monial publicities e Europe is apparently convinced that need is not so much of moral and political reformers as of resourceful and reliable tinanciers. : oo The big parties are held on New Year eve, thereby making the first of resolutions more emphatic present The King is not as popular or power- ul as Mussolini, but there are indica tions in Italy that he may hold his of- fieial position longer. ————— Frost fruit crop. Farmers, in order to even. will have to ask more for city lots in new subdivisions. ———— SHOOTING STARS. PHIL BY NDER JOHNSON, Opposing Influence. When Happy New Year comes again We'll take a philosophic view And say, should any one complain, “Remember, it is Frid: t00." If anthracite is under ban And pork and beans grow dear anew, The New Year does’ the best it can. Remember, it is Friday, too. Superabundance. “Have new idens speech?” “None tor Sorghum. you any for a whatever.” answered Sena- “The trne patriot will busy himself in tryving to keep some | of the old ones from being called at- tention to.” The Authorities. When you demand a fashion new With stockings kept behind scenes, The girls remark, “Go tell it to The pictures in the maguzines.” the Jud Tunkins says a man who thinks he knows how things ought:to he done most generally oblized to do them. isn't Utilizing a Resource. “1 understand Crimson Gulch have the benefit of development.” “Yes,” answered Cactus Joe. “We've to decided the only thing that can be| done with the ground around here is |t put buildings on it, 80 we've started a real estate boom Paradox. Unto the ancient classic we're inclined. We see, in modern themes, of thought a lack. In curious contradiction. thus we find. We're going forward when we're looking back. “Wigh yoh friends a Happy New Year,” said Uncle Iben, “an’ see if you can't keep voh cheerful iish goln' through de rest of de three hun- dred an® sixty-four days.* the | be an extraordinary | something ! of short | has endangered the Florida met WASHINGTO ] BY CHARLES E. TRA “1 would rather have a man tell me to my fuce than tilk hehind my [ ek, i ¥o he said. and he meant it, hut he Wi wrong, | Think what a world jIf every one in it jont plainiy? Nine out o jtude. “Tejl 4 he speak this wou o f ten repeat the ald plati me 1o my face ™ they | Yet the nine probably are in error. | With but one in the correct minority. |Such i often the ca Numbers do {not make right, any e than might | does. The plain truth of thix matter (at least ax one sees it—nnd how jean truth be vigioned?) 1= that no one really likex to be told the truth jexeept when it ix favorable | There is no occasion for {prised at this, Our frail_human nature I that all of ug are very touchy. | Some merely manize to ihetter than others, that fx | Probably the trouble i | when one of the original Old Settlers {1010 the other that she wished CGod being sur h oncenl n Iden hegan had left hix old rih alone. Plain speaking. indeed: et us have plenty of high think inz, hut ieave the ont:<yoken truth to the next world, where it will he hetter eceived than in this, or not nece | sary. which wonld be better all aronnd *ox ok % perfectly frank individual ereating trouble in world too long as it s He—or she. orrow under il tle— or by speakin +century has ! been the civilized goes around causing the zuise of heina help. she-causes more misery than could be created in of speechlessness. He-—or <he brings dise not help. Necall uny one of the Jumeses you know What have they ever done unvarnished lives of plain except cause dissension umhappiness® This partiv 1 Calamity Janes always the truth about ever once in their do they single out and bring it rruthful in =) mnd their aki e is inse s choos trivial thing disagreenhle some on o ous silve they mizhi do us some real If they would put the searchlizht of their material stic fongues error in our ins acting, they aiven— thouzh hated This they pever do, however Thelr precious pluin confined to telling us of inconsequential fault much better over What difference this huze world are blackened or Wheop? Where commission that state of our boots and report i« Conzress on the dismal. unhlackened condition of our pedal extremitios” Surely there ix some other fault hout ux. efther inward or ontward that letter deserves the sting n acid tongue, the wholesome acid of unmitizated eriticism. the helpful meanness of the truth’ Why will plain upen none these mizht save 0 a i our bt must confine ok of blacking some reall of think mi speaking is some utterly one which h ked does it make whether our shoes > Who cares the Government avestigate the e no is will our speaker things hetter lite souls from the hurni himself s upon our touch which hi = th lely 1o the shoes? n of SDNESDAY THIS AND THAT “WELL. The sensitive spirit shrinks from much pother about nothinz. Our minor fanlts onght 1o he looked, for we are only human. Men and women—and children, ~must have faults. They the safety Without them. li he the vale of tea tured by a few d fent on saving te valves of life & would, indeed it has been pic mal ones more in others than them | selve: else ; The fact that a man chooses | angle | to | DECEMBER Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln The Fordney-McCumber Is under a crossfire. with the Demo. crats an Congress raking it from one ' and some of the Republican Senators and Representatives from the agricultural States of the Middle West and West from another. The Democrats are frankly npon making the tariff the i coming con resentative tariff act intent 1e of the ressional campaign. Rep- William A. Oldficld of Ar- kansas, Democratic “whip” 6f the House and chairman of the Democratic congressional committee, helieves that wear an old floppy hat has little, if | if the Democrats center their efforts on anything, to do with his real mission in_life Yet, to hear some talk. one might | tive weapon to s imagine the Conduct of Life is con- ned mainly with the problem of |other Democratic leaders, howeser wearing. atop one's style of hat decreed ) sons setting themselves ters of fashion. Those who b dangerous eminence to think so. deserve, miseration than our The ancient curse the heads of most earn our living i brow, intellectua have little tin 0. K. of the m We are, rather, cone serving that still more He walks in the brin. head. the exact ¢ unknown pe up as arbi chieved such a in this world ax rather, our com- envy still of the hangs us, and if we weat of our otherwise, we hother with the T, rned with de ancient prais hat The ways of on earth arve consistently others. It you Wy mean slur in happiness forwarded by behind the and peace speaking ks of have any captious criticism vour heart against another. spill it into the ear of companion, rather than into the the innocent offender “Take it out” on the helpless air behind his back, rather than to face. pend you senee of yonr ship may not Tn this way vou may stay on Ble terms with all. and at the time satisfy the propensity nature in this rezard For nst small safety Valves of livin hind the back™ is the triendship. Th e well defended have various the 1 Phey had need be zirt with more than the Christian’s panoply of virtue il they mean their Kindness to endu in the face of much or unneces sary plain spes By all means I our fr never the down speak ont anoth divul rid « hi: the ah friend meanness friend, so he sullied in that Tater. imien same of homan r the of il talking verflaw pipe friends, however their friendship. s spholes in no in ni 15 talk nds spirit that let us ret y friend. and the evils hehind the Whe weikhs clined to the haven her fain et pr Knockin panning e. the Tis o very in print) Tell me to ms talk behind my 1 Never tell him t wavs talk behind b Thus. and thus ship, put to so m; dure 1~ s0 we feel ess is pleasant one o B is for it nother thinz h whatever 1% its uses univers, n dthons fow (especially ther than only ny tests at OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. BY FREDERIC Holiday time is handshaking time at ithe White House. like Easter and the {height of the Washinston tourist s son. Uollege bovs and girls and school {hildren on vacation make up the end less queues of persons who line up {inside and outside the executive of fices between 12:30 and 1 p.m. for |presentation to the President. Daily i Mr. Coolidge zraspx the hands of from 1700 to 750 patriots and taxpavers at fthis midday vinz hour. Early in {his career the President was bored by {thesc homespun visits from his well {meaning _countrymen and country- {women. Now he has come to lile [them and even to look forward to {them. Mr. Coolidze does not unduly draz out the noonday functions. The andshakers are speeded alonz at Jout the gait traveled by the movinz dewalk from which parts are slapped and dashed onto Mr. Ford's automo- biles at Detroit. But the President takes time to smile, =ive a real =rip {and sav “Glad to see you!" to eve imother’s s I vigilant segretaries and Secret Serviee | shepherds ‘pilot past him. | * ok ox o Dr. Samuel A. Eliot. ela ton clergyman who was Wil . 1w orator in Washington, is cominz to look a lot like his distinzuished futher. the president emeritus of Har vard. Dr. Charles W. Eliot. althouzh ithe son. a giant., looms head and | shoulders over the parent. In his Wil- |son address Dr. Eliot achieved the un- {isual feat of reading from a manu seript and creating the impression that he was deliverinz an oration {Only a few public speakers are mas ters of that art There were some Jrassages in Eliot’s address {have fallen from the lips of Woodrow | Wilson himself. This one. for in | stance—Peace ix not the absence of iconflict. | hood.™ S e K Newton D. Baker of Cleveland rose. 15 he alwavs does, to eminent heights in his extempore eulogy of the World War President. It has been said that if Baker were & inches taller he would be America’s master orator. As it i, he never fails to arouse his au diences to pitches of zreat emotion. At the Wilson birthday anniversary banquet in Washington, the former Secretary of War painted a zlowing picture of the “endurinz effective- of Wilson ideals. “In 1916, Baker, “men voted for Wilson for President hecause he kept us out of war. It was not many months be- Ifore he was no longer able to keep us out of war. But today, in consequence of the League of Nations, which Wil- son more than any man created, he has literally kept tens of millions out of war—Itallans, Greeks, Poles, Bul- garians, Serbs—who are alive and at peace because of what he wrought!” IR Yale University. from which he was zraduated in 1906, is about to honor the memory of Maj. Robert Whitney Imbrie, the American foreign service officer murdered in Persia a couple of vears ago. It is planned to place his {unique collection of war trophies and records in the new Peabody Museum of the university as a permanent me- morial. The installation will be ar ranged by the Book and Gavel So- ciety. Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, of which Maj. Tmbrie was a member, will pass resolutions at its forthcoming | convention in St. Louis providing for a permanent memorial in the new chapter house at Yale. The Persian government paid Maj. Imbrie's widow, now a resident of Washington, an in- demnity of $60.000 a year ago. Rep- resentative Britten of Illinois recently introduced a bill in the House pro- viding for A Treasury grant of an ad- ditional $40.000 to her. The United States exacted from Persia the sum of $110,000, representinz the cost of sending the cruiser Trenton to Per- jan waters for transport of Maj. Imbrie’s remains to this country. The State Department is asking Congress to set aside that amount as a fund m and dauzhter whom his | that mizht | It is the presence of brother- | i | i | tavorite instrument of Andrew sug for the education in servinz Persian students. It zested that. if established. the known as the Imbrie Foundation PR Toll Denver, i Dril member of the Colorado nephew of i once the United State nt Edward 0. We of a dwerting } the formation mem ane The annual is hased National number which could he throush une manner incaleula respective States The Coloradan with profit, be vernors, secre orneys general, commissioners of public hanks, taxation and health a national leazue of Johby America ¢ Henry & liant young State Senate famous the late and Senator of imd eloqu cott. is the author posal. He N “American 1 tion® It would ber of each State the United else would association meeti My Toll's on the theory that S legisiators have an f things in common considered and settled, ficial contacts, in a Iy valuable to their and to the XNatio thinks there mizht similar leagues aries of suggests nsist of Lewis Con every At elis wonld he hie hold an scheme na immense to Join ntilities, Why not ists] too? * *x William K Senator linois i * * One commemorative of volumes ever published in the United | | States will s the shortly leave the pres: log of the American Bar s celebrated trip to Great July, 1924, over swhich Svans Hughes presided with o much aplomb. James Montzomery Beck. former Solicitor General of the United States, who was one of the star orators of the joint Anglo-Ameri- can meetinzs in London, is writing an introduction to the volume. It will consist of a detafled account of the between the bars of the two countries. These are nearly half o century old. One of their most notable episodes wis the visit paid to New York in 1882 by Lord Chief Justice Coleridze of Emgland. The forthcoming volume will reproduce all of the speeches made at the London meetings of 1924 by Mr. Hughes and the other eminent American and Rritish jurists who took part in them. The souvenir will be issued in a very limited edition and distributed by the American Bar Association to only a few particularly noteworthy partici vants in the historic conclave. (Copyright, 1925.) e A Matter of Distance. From the Utica Observer-Dispatch The first day of Winter northern latitude bronght a ture of more than in this temper: 40 dezrees; while the first day of Summer down in (he‘ Argentine gave them the shade. pring in the Southern Hemisphere has been unusually warm, and that is said to be one of the reasons for Qe short wheat erop in Argentina. But this fact and the continnance of warm weather in this latitude ought to convince many nervous and easily disturbed persons that the sun is not losing its heat. and that seed time and harvest will have their sea- sons as in the past. 110 degrees in hdy | 4 | \ N | farmer shadow of his own | | | | perons | several eriticism | in- | | i { und { pluses has heen hailed fund be | nominees MeKinlex of a candidate for renomina tion and re-election in 1926, and ix said to be stronzly intrenched. But pparently he's runninz no unneces- chances. One of his methods of ingratiating himself with the people of the State is the wholesale distribu- tion of pipe organs to towns and cities which have churches. assembly halls or public buildings into which the Carne- gie and Charles M. Schwab will fit. All over the Prairie State, from windy Chicago to sun-kissed Egypt. me from MeKinley organs now makes life sweeter. The Senator’s managers are confident that it will blend into votes by the time primary day rolls around next vear. * % the finest | | i | pius ithe President. | ever, | ernor the tariff and are not led off into other lines of attack, they will have an effec rinst their Re publican opponent Oldfield and M reful e to state that Party s not seeking “free invthing like it. They of “tariff for revenue,” protection, he Democ trade,” or are talking with incidental * ok ok % Senators from the West., like Capper of Kansas, head of the farm bloc, are usinz the tariff 4s o zet the Republicans of the Fast in line for lezislation to aid the farmers dispose of their urplus erops af wheat, corn, ete. Senator Cappex makes no hones ahout saving that nn less o real effort js made to solve the problem and to enable them 1o obtain u reaxonable return on their investments and labor. the farmers of the West will rise and smite the protective tariff which has the industrial East and sible for capital and industry made {t pos abor enzaged in o hecome enormously pros The farmers, he savs, must buy in a protected market. while they must xell much of their produce in a market where the world price largely werns. Senator Capper is speaking today before the Boston Chamber of Commerce on this subject The administration has declined be canzht napping. however. Indeed hath President Coolidge and Secretary | Jardine of the Department of Azricul bave announced that they not only willing but desirous of 1 linz the problem of the farmers ind of working it ont nd economic lines. President ool idze points ont that in his ann messaze and in his address au Federation in 1y Congress nssembled he gave promise of such action by the idministration. Secretary Jardine re fers to hix annual report. written weeks ago. to show the same k sur- thing o ox % While tion are decly pponents of the administra inz that the administra ion has been forced to adopt en rely different position with regar > the agricultural problem by the r from Tow: and the American Iurm Burean Federation and other farmers’ organizations. when they thousht that the administration’s pro ded only the bill for gov 1id to the farm co-operative ministration hus called farm here for’ conferences in Janu ind otherwise i< preparinz to cu sround from under enemies N s not 1 inz been forced tion in rezard to the asricultura oblem. As i matter of fact, it has not. The President and Secretary Tardine have all insisted that he Government was not zofr ices or to zo into the hus huyi ind selling farm They still insist there is riaking with their In some quarters administration. however, the fact the administration has announced its intention of attempting to work out 1 feasible plan to deal with crop sur surrender of those an Iv the administration charged with hav to abandon its B posi o to fix pess = pre Vv he no pproval nimical tn the that op-over to the side > Government export cor poration. As a matter of fact, the people who have urged such an export corporation. financed hy the Govern me; have in considerible part aban doned such a plan. They are willing to zet goseth with the administrs tion on the basis of a board or com mission which shall use its d ffices to help the farmers to finance their own handling of surpluses. It looks thougch the administra tion was both showing good sense and plaving zood politics in this matter- The farm problem is one that needs attention for the sake of the entire country, and if the President and advisers are successful in their pres. ent efforts. it will be theit Doubtles satisfy the radic but if they Usfy the zreat majority of farmers, who are after all a conser tive class, they will have accomplish ed a great deal and the Republican next Fall will cap they will not can the thereby * ok % % "he Already attack tariff act Demaocrats in the House have laid the croundwork of their on the ordney-MeCumber Representative Oldfield ha introduced a resolution to investigate the cotton tariff schedule. He pro. hoses as soon as Congress reconvenes to_introduce another resolution pre viding for an investigation of the aluminum schedule, which he declares is an iniquity that works only for the benefit of the Aluminum trust Secretary Mellon of the Treasury De. partment. a large owner. Represents tive 1iull of Tennessee. Democratic member also of the, ways and mean committee. has offered a1 resolution Proposing a revision downwar whole tariff structure. They are in- tent upon proving to the American consumers that the duties in the pre ent Republican tariff are so high that the consumers are forced to pay more for many kinds of zoods th they would under a Democrgic law. o During the Christmas holiday Indi ana_Republican leaders have flocked hinzton. Gov. Jackson ha bheen in conference with Senators Wat son and Rebinson. and former Senator Albert J. Reveridge has heen in the Capital. and was a luncheon gzuest of The President. how- no favorites among the Hoosfers. He received Gov. Jack- son and Senator Robiison and had a long chat with the governor over the trials and tribulations which the zov- of a State must face. digging back into his Governor of Massach to compare notes with the Indiana executive. Beveridge still continues somewhat an enigma. He is saying about his possible plans to run for the Senate next Fall, but is going back to Massachusetts to continue work on his life of Lincoln. Former Representative Georze K. Denton of Evansville. Ind.. has nounced his candidacy for th cratic nomination for the Against Senator Watson. He Sy, is playing of * ok ko The Repubiican congressional com mittee, to which will be intrusted the work of electing a Republican House next Fall, will e organized soon after: Congress reassembles, it is expected The committee consists of a Republ can member of the House from each State—except, of course, in those States where there are no Republican congressmen. Representative Wil Wood of Indiana is the present chair- man and has served during two cam- paigns. It is likely he will be chosen to succeed himself as chairman. No other candidate for the office has vet announced himself. * x ok ow The crop of potential presidential booms s almost always considerable in thi= country. There I8 a goodly crop today on the Republican side of flail to| henefited | along | to the! the feet of its| ¢ 1 hours for passaze his | a big feather in | henefit nd | of the | Mr. | nothing | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. | Q. What is the extent of phone business in the United States as 1o camty number of employves {number ol phones and miles of wire —W. G At vary 1 mated: S00; the tele e following data are for Jan 1925, and partly i Number of telephones, 16,072 miles of telephone wire, 16.500. 1 000; number of employes in telephone | service, 350,000: value of investment lephone plants and pment 000,000 . Q. About how many we shipped out cars of grapes of California_durin the grape season each day’—P. G. N A. The peak of thiz season’s ship ments of zrapes from Californ on September 24. when 1625 were billed out. If it had noi Ibeen for the car shortage, which de- veloped two days later, this figure probably would have héen exceeded The heaviest day’s shipments i ear were 1,246 cars, on September 18 Q. Are there many macists in this conntry? A, Pharmacy {in small numbe interest to them. the pharmacists trained in pharm vernment and | ries | @ { name “m A The | of silk woman E. S has attracted women <, but is of increasing In many hospitals re women: woaaen ey are working in industrial lahornio ! phar | The A < applied in the case with a watered or It i from the French wave. The term ‘wa ‘moire” hoth are based characteristic appearance | namely. bricht and dull in varfegated jpatches. like the wandering of snilled Pwater. The fabric itself sometimes is | taffeta, but is usnally of a ribhed tyne fas poplin | Q. Which countries zreatest number of {into this country A. The principal limmigrant aliens iwere German. 3.9 llish. 3.424: Mo 1 2.219: French. 1 What s err— name § finished i clouded effect | word mean | tered” and {upon the of the furni aliens E. M races furnishing in Au; Trish 2.311 and Seandir h the mitted ican Seoteh vian © Senators and membe Representatives alw as to salary?—N. H have always been salaries have been heen for bath houses. {the Honse Leen on A. The s (the same. When 'I’ 1ised they e | Q 1Is it easy vour |And « position as ‘m hand | A, The supply of farm |mated to be 96.2 per mand as an average [ States. That ix 1o s <upply on October 1, 1925 the demand by 3.8 per con Ithe geographic divisions there pius of farm labor in the W Central Mountain and P and u deficiency elsewhere of par ailaries labor is esti cent of the de for the the farm wis less A Q F most | A w what ple imprisor he commitm ness outnumber offense. In convictions The from sinzie omense a nts those 1923 there for drunker had decr when there ness number 1910 How throuzh AL M A A 4 throuzh delays vessel the I requires hours is occupied in heing lowered through the Jocks Q i told How can without the eutting the R. E A wrest one of the chief the whorls of 1he { species the whorl ble than in other: stern white each vear the of branches. stand _off and them Service th counti In the sayvs wavs i by branches . particu in pine vou will note for tree sets out o whorl It has heen possible count anywhere 3 to 75 years in thix manner whorls come out regularly and clear spaces between each vear not possible to tell the broadleaf trees from The have Tt i <o well in Q A Please ns tell Colony something B C: L A. The Amana Colony west of Towa City There villages— Amana. East Am Amana, High Amana. W " i miles seven Middle Aman na h | as early nd Homestead zoverned by a president : of 13 directors and each vil lage is controlled by seven or more elders appointed by the hoard of di rectors. The property includes 2,000 acves of land The population N 1,720. There are no hotels in the Amana Colony. Q. Is a torpedo fired from a =nb marine by powder or compressed air -T. R. A. It is fired from a submarine b: means of compressed air below the surface and by means of powder above the surface. Q rise over the whole L. A. ke the snn tn A How long will it t of Nebraska” The Naval Observatory savs the time between sunrise at the eastern most point of Nebraska and sunrise on the western boundary is about 3t minntes 30 seconds at either equinox Tolmes. the traveler Amerfean?—C. T. M Holmes was horn 8. 1870, Hie in Chicazo in Q. Ts Purton and lecturer, an A. Elias Burton in Chicago, TIL. January first lecture was given 1800 Q. How lonz has the British House of Commons been known as the “lower house” J.J H A. The term was found in literature as 1548 in Hall's “Chro; of Henry VL Q. How s it position in a parade” tion should he first Legion or Spanish War W.F. C. A. Organizations in a parade ceed by order of the dates of -their o< tahlishment and orzanization. the ol4 est heinz to the front. as. fi the Grand Army: second. the Loval 1e =ion® third. Spanish War Veterans fourth. Veterans of Foreizn fifth, Military Order of Foreizn <ixth, American Legion: seventh tary Order of the World War cighth. Disabled American Veterans decided in What organi the Americar Veterans" Wars il Q. How many »re emple by Congress’— \. There at the are and abou present time. The aze limit 2 to 16 vears. and the services ma continue untii the age limit is reaches What part did American eavalrs 1 the World W H. E. O The Ame r cavalry took very active part in the late war in so Enrope an: f the time on ments they were remount Q play 7 Asia were conce Adry was ocenpied xican horder sen rance as the operations in ned. Most at that our whers ed principally on squadron took an aitle of SL Mihiel Oné active When did Wild Bill Hickak dte D. Wild Bill Hickok ack of the head hy Broken-Nose J: on Augns while in a card game in 2 sadwo Dk 0.« \ shot McCal k h noticed < QT rticle there an spectacular decreass suzar production in the lust f vears. \What ix the cause of this P L. F For years maple sugar has declined largeiy because o prefers sirup to sugar. an rzer function of the sap made into sirup. In the there has heen a decline from 9,787,000 pounds vir Wine has heer last fiv in the a2 sugar 268500 pounds How much coffee United States?— k. H The annual consumption United States is ahout pounds. The annual consign capita is over 9 Q is used veur n the A tion per ponn (The here cach day are specimens from the mass of inquiries handled by the great information burcau mai tained by The Washington Star. Th raluable service is for the free wse o the public. Ask any question of fact wou may want to know and you 1wl ot an immediate reply. Write plainlo inclosc 2 cents in stamps for retur postage and address The Washinate Star Information Burcan. Frederic 1 Haskin. director. Tiwenty-tirst and € streets morthwest, Washington. D. € ansicers to questions printed picked e THE PROBLEM OF THE RAILROADS RBY J. C. DAVIS, Director General of Railroads of the United States. III—Enormous Increase in Taxes - The effect of I heen reflected in gances. from the |the individual on [torms of orzanized business. Ispe icially is this true in our public ex penses and the taxes made necessary 10 meet these increased expenditures | Tt seems that every taxing hody— { the township. the city. the county. the State and the Nation—have in creased public charges that the aggr {zate is appalling. and in many in- | stances becomes i real hardship. ap. iproaching confiscation. Not satistied with taxing bevond limits while vou are alive, the authorities pursue your jestate and your heirs after death. that many prudent persons are now arranging their affairs they may die in Florida. where punishment after is committed to the spiritual than undertaken by the tem al powers Railroads are peculiarly subject | excessive taxation. Not only are they j obliged to make public reports, disclos Lin~ with much particularity all the Iproperty, visible and invisible, which they have. hut most of their proper is of a_char that its extent and value is easily disclosed and is tempting target for the assessing thorities Again. they are subject variety of public charges to_ordinary taxes. there | taxes, occuy { renewal fees, charges for the right to do business, taxes for special improve. | ments. streets, roads, drainage proj i ects and grade crossings. It is said that railroads pay in pub- the World War has 41 kinds of extrava living expenses of through various au- to In 2 re great idition income the fence, althouzh its growth at pres. ent is arrested. The arresting factor is the possibility—probability it is called in many quarters—that Presi- dent Coolid will he the choice of the { Republican party to succeed himself at ithe national convention in 1425, The President’s closest friends n aining a_complete silence with resard !t0 1928, The inference is that politics |—like nature—will be allowed to “take lits course” so fav as 1928 is concerned. | | However, if the President is not n | candidate to succeed himself three {years hence, the race for the nomina will have plenty of entrants. | Speaker Longworth of Ohjo. former | Gov. Lowden of Tllinois, who last vear declined the nomination for Vice Presi- dent; Secretary Hoover of the Depart- ment of Commerce, a powerful figure in the present administration: Senator William Borah of Idiuho. Charles Evans Hughes; former Secretary of e and the standard-bearer in 1916, and Senator Capper of Kansas, head of the farm bloc, and hix colleague, enator Charles Curtis.. Republican leader of the Senate, are amonz those | whose names are mentioned in the political zossip which constantly ebba | and flows in the National Capital. tion 1 tion licenses, corporation | {out detriment 1o the public lic charges a greater percentage o their earnings than any other busine -« enterprise In 1911 roads ag dends zated ter the taves rezated $8§ 00 and div paid for the same year agec $397.069.000. In 1923, 12 veq . the taxes paid by the same rod< azarezated $331.915.000, while the div dends paid were but $346.534 increase in taxes of £330 A A dec e in dividends of more than $30.000.000, The taxing of public ser rations presents a_curious anomaly ir government. Freight and passenges rates have frequently been called = tax. so one hranch of the Government increases the ordinary taxes. and an other branch. to enable the company to vepay these taxes. increases the rates. and the waste incident to the collection and expenditure of these amounts. and the regulation of the carriers in this matter is a very la amount, which the people ultimate pay. Of conrse. this increase has not heen applicahle roads and their property plicd to all property and all persons and especially to farm property Sta tisties put out hv the Agricultural e Partment show that hetween 1914 an¢ 1922 the taxes on farm property have more than doubled. In many In stances the tax per acre for 1922 ¢ improved farm land equaled the fair rental value of the property in 1914 resident Coolidge struck a happs "d when he said: The collection of any tay paid by elass ice corpe in lone taxatior to rail It has ap s which | are not absolutely required. which do not beyvond reasonable doubt contrih nute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny The farmers and the railroads, if | they only understood each other, have much in common. Both are sufferine to a larze extent from the same wses. Both suffer from increased cost of labor in operation: hoth suffer ! from the fact that they pay more in proportion for what they have to huy than the price they get for what the: have to sell. and both are suffering from excessive increases in the line nf ation. A united effort on their part to reduce public charges would be more profitable than the insistent demand to reduce rates below the level that will insure efficient service A 25 per cent reduction in taxes would insure to the individual more direct profit than a 26 per cent re duction in freight rates. By proper economy in the conduct of our various governments. this re duction in taxes could be made with erviee Any substantial general reduction in rates would destroy the solvency of the rail carriers, and any reduced effi ciency in service result in verv zreat loss to the producers of tonnage which muat be moved by rail (Copyrizht, 1875.) i’